Education minister


Lowbottom High Diaries: Big Sister

In one’s youth Big Sister was a range of cake and pudding mixes. In the new millennium it is those power skirts in the federal and state governments who seem to want to play headmistress, writes Trevor Diogenes.

The Great Centralist, The Magnificent Micro-Manager, The All Wise One – yep, it’s John Howard

One thing Kevin “Mini-Me” Rudd would find it hard to do as Prime Minister: be more of a centralist than John Howard.